advertisement 10-26-2015 IMPACT This Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House Gigantic wind farms aren’t the only way to harness the breeze.

Several years ago [Michael Davis] built a charge controller for his wind turbine and published his construction plans online. This build became quite popular, especially among people that live in r… ...

Were it mounted in a high position free from ground based wind obstacles it would no doubt catch a lot more wind, and in particular were it hooked up to a charge controller and a battery it could ...

While most wind turbines are getting bigger–like this U.K. design with blades as long as a football field–a few are going in the opposite direction and aiming to become as small as possible. A ...

The 25W portable Wisp was built by West Virginia-based Windpax. It generates energy from even the ‘smallest of breezes’ using three plastic fins that ‘cup’ the air to spin a built-in turbine.